iCloud is down for some users, affecting some macOS and iOS software and web apps

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s iCloud service is experiencing an outage right now, causing errors with account sign-in, i...

Scientists engineer human cells with squid-like transparency

Scientists described how they drew inspiration from cephalopod skin to endow mammalian cells with tunable transparency and light-scattering ...

New research deepens understanding of Earth's interaction with the solar wind

Scientists have reproduced a process that occurs in space to deepen understanding of what happens when the Earth encounters the solar wind. ...

Behaviors and traits that influence social status, according to evolutionary psychologists

Beyond fame and fortune, certain traits and behaviors may have pervasive influence in climbing the social ladder, according to a study by ev...

Antibiotic-destroying genes widespread in bacteria in soil and on people

Researchers have found that genes that confer the power to destroy tetracycline antibiotics are widespread in bacteria. But the researchers ...

A Look At AI Benchmarking For Mobile Devices In a Rapidly Evolving Ecosystem

MojoKid writes: AI and Machine Learning performance benchmarks have been well explored in the data center, but are fairly new and unestablis...

Senators Introduce COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Privacy Bill

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: A group of U.S. senators on Monday introduced a bill to regulate contact-tracing apps, aiming...